• These flashcards are blocks of content that can insert into the essays you have planned. They also work for essays you have not prepared in advance: you have blocks of knowledge in your head that you can put into your new essay.
• Everything that is in your ANKI is g...

• Explore the subject and find essay titles that cover the entire breadth of the syllabus.
• Keep in mind past essay titles.
• After you've covered those up (and gained a deeper understanding of the subject), put yourself in the shoes of...

• Start with a question.
• Use Google to get as much information as you can about that particular question (articles, review papers, everything that could answer your question). Keep all the information in a research document.

The objective of this stage is to transfer all your essay plans into your brain so that you can use them later during the exam.

Useful techniques:

• ANKI flashcards
• Spider diagrams
• A retrospective revision timetable.

There are aspects questions to keep in mind at this stage:

1. How you decide what essay titles to choose and prepare.
2. How you plan the essays.
3. How you make sure your essay plans are high quality.

• Using the memorized content blocks of the ANKI flashcards, you can build spider diagrams.
• You have the whole structure of the essay and the keyword in your diagram.
• Follow the same process for all your essay title. Put a date on ...

This is the last step towards effective memorization and it involves systematic spaced repetition. You can do it by using a retrospective timetable.

This technique involves creating a spreadsheet that starts with a list of subjects, topics or essays that you have put toget...